• bdonvr@thelemmy.club
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      5 days ago

      Oh yeah. All my coworkers talk/ask about “sites” which are just streaming sites filled to the absolute brim with ads and all the videos are low bitrate. Kinda sad ngl

      • starrysunrise451@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        That’s on them for using lousy websites. I can stream in full 1080p while using adblock so I never have to deal with ads (why would anyone stream anything without adblock, that is THE fastest way to get a virus omg)

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          full 1080p

          Really doesn’t mean anything. A 1080p movie can be 2gb and it’s technically still 1080p. But a 1080p Bluray is 20-30GB. Resolution is a small part of quality.

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      5 days ago

      I’m trying to convert some of my (alarmingly) slightly younger friends to torrent trackers. So far so good

      edit: and tbf slightly older people are almost as bad about streaming in my experience, so it affects everyone

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      A while ago I told a young co worker that I just download whatever tv series I want, and since then they seem to be under the impression I have hundreds of USB thumbsticks lying around for storage. I hate to generalise but they really don’t seem to get anything about piracy.

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        “No, I have 3 4tb drives and 5 1tb drives. I mean I do have 15 sticks around but most of those have a linux distro on them and the others are for general use.”